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Senate committee advances bill to stop HOAs from banning service dogs in training
Summary
A Senate Judiciary committee voted to refer House File 688 to the Senate floor after testimony that the bill would extend housing protections now afforded to fully trained assistance dogs to dogs still in training, allowing more volunteers to raise and socialize service dogs.
A bill to prevent homeowners associations from blocking people from housing service dogs in training advanced out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on a voice vote.
Supporters said the bill would extend already existing protections for people who rely on fully trained assistance dogs to the volunteers who raise and train those animals. “We estimate that it costs about $45,000 to raise and train each of our dogs,” Jeff Johnson, executive director of Can Do Canines, told the committee. “But we give them away free of charge because few of our clients could even come close to affording that.”
The bill’s author, identified in…
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